SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse police say they will change the way they handle sexual abuse allegations after it took nine years to start a formal investigation from the time the first accusations were raised against a former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach.
Police Chief Frank Fowler, in a prepared statement, says he can’t change what happened in 2002 when Bobby Davis accused Bernie Fine of sexually abusing him.
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